Longing For Liberty: Susan Jacoby’s New Book Traces Conversion’s Connection To Religious Freedom

source: https://www.au.org/church-state/april-2016-church-state/books-ideas/longing-for-liberty-susan-jacobys-new-book-traces April 2016 Books & Ideas By Sarah E. Jones Strange Gods: A Secular History Of Conversion by Susan Jacoby, Pantheon Books, 464 pp. Susan Jacoby, the author of The Age of Unreason, Freethinkers and other books, tackles the thorny subject of religious conversion in her compelling new release from Pantheon Books. Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion critically examines […]

How faith conversion affected kings and their empires throughout history

http://www.duquoin.com/article/ZZ/20160305/NEWS/303059923 For most of us today, religious faith is considered a very personal, private and individual thing. Throughout world history, though, nations have often followed the religious beliefs and ideologies of their rulers. For most of us today, religious faith is considered a very personal, private and individual thing.For most of us today, religious faith […]

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By Pashchiema Bhatia
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